UVa/NSU/JLAB Graduate Student
Recruitment Event:
21st
Century Light
JLAB, Newport News, Va March 9-11, 2004
Our schedule is for invited undergraduate
students (applications here)
to arrive at either (i) NSU around noon or (ii) JLAB in the late afternoon or
early evening of Tuesday the 9th and to participate in a series of
informative activities through Thursday morning.. Over
the course of the 21st Century Light event students will be
introduced to the graduate programs of Norfolk
State University,
the University of Virginia,
and our NSF IGERT
program on the “Science and
Engineering of Laser Interactions with Matter”. Students will be given a
tour of the world’s most powerful free electron laser and its associated
laboratories. Students will participate in elements of the concurrently running
Laser Processing Consortium (LPC) meeting,
graduate student poster session, banquet, and have an opportunity to meet and
interact with many graduate students, faculty, and scientists and engineers
drawn from industry, national labs, and universities. Please register for the
LPC meeting on-line
and indicate that you will (a) attend the Wednesday evening dinner and (b) pay
for registration at the meeting. In practice, there will be no registration fees
levied for 21st Century Light participants at the LPC meeting and we
can supply travel money.
Tuesday, March 9
21st Century Light invited students arrive by bus,
car, or plane to NSU or JLAB in the afternoon. Graduate students and faculty
arrive from NSU and UVa. LPC meeting guests also
arrive from academe, industry and national labs.
NSU
Center for Materials
Research
12-1
pm Lunch
with faculty and graduate students
1 – 5
pm Presentations
at NSU, Lab Tours
5-6
pm Travel
to JLAB
6:30-7
pm 21st
Century Light Mixer - Brief Introduction
7-8 pm Dinner
8-9
pm 21st
Century Light and LPC Meeting Mixer and entertainment
Wednesday, March 10
Visiting 21st Century
Light students will participate in portions of the LPC meeting and also have
parallel sessions dedicated specifically to them. On Wednesday morning, the
visiting students begin at the main LPC
meeting in CEBAF Center
within JLAB.
7:30-8:30
am Breakfast
at CEBAF Center
8:30-9:00
am Registration
and Coffee
9:00am Introduction,
Fred Dylla, JLAB
9:05 am
Welcome
and Prospectus of JLab, C. Leemann,
JLAB Director
9:15 am FEL and
Light Source Program – Status Report, Fred Dylla
10:00 am FEL Upgrade
Projects: UVV, IR, THz, George Niel, JLAB
10:30-11:00 am Coffee
& Cookie Break
11:00 am
NSF IGERT
Graduate Program at UVa/.NSU/JLAB, Ian Harrison, UVa
11:30 am Graduate
Programs at NSU, Carl Bonner, NSU
11:50 am Materials
Research and Lasers, George Loutts, NSU
12:10 pm Powder
Lasers, Mikhail Noginov, NSU
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
with Graduate Students, Faculty, and Lab Scientists
1:30 pm Careers
in Science: Panel Discussion, Lori Nicholaysen, UVa
2
pm Biomedical
Applications of Lasers, Chris Easley, UVa
2:20 pm Laser-Assisted
Catalysis & Chemical Vapor Deposition, Heather Abbott
2:40 pm Ultrafast Energy Flow in Molecules, Pam Crum, UVa
3-3:30
pm Coffee
& Cookie Break
3:30 pm Hydrogen
Spectroscopy in Silicon, Gunter Luepke, CWM
4:00 Laser
Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Biomolecules, John
Semmes, EVMS
4:45 Tour
of Free Electron Laser Facility
5:45 pm Student
Poster Session and Reception, CEBAF Center
Auditorium
7
pm LPC
Banquet
8 pm Visitors adjourn with our
graduate students and faculty and LPC meeting visitors for some evening fun.
Thursday, March 11
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 am LPC
Meeting: Applications of Lasers in Science & Engineering
12:00
noon Lunch
with UVa/NSU/JLAB/LPC Scientists and Engineers
1
pm 21st
Century Light Wrap-up & Question Period
1:30
pm Departure